Characters of Shakespear's Plays

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Page 93 One of the most beautiful passages in Chaucer's tale is the description of
Cresseide's first avowal of her love. " And as the new abashed nightingale, That
stinteth first when she beginneth sing, When that she heareth any herde's tale, Or
in the ...

Page 130 What we mean is this, that we will produce out of that single play ten passages, to
which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets can be
opposed, displaying equal fancy and imagery. Shall we mention the ...

Page 231 The only rule, indeed, for altering Shakespear is to retrench certain passages
which may be considered either as superfluous or obsolete, but not to add or
transpose any thing. The arrangement and developement of the story, and the
mutual ...

Page 232 The passages which the unfortunate Henry has to recite are beautiful and
pathetic in themselves, but they have nothing to do with the world that Richard
has to " bustle in." In the same spirit of vulgar caricature is the scene between
Richard ...

Page 309 Zimmerman's celebrated work on Solitude discovers only half the sense of this passage. There is hardly any of Shakespear's plays that contains a greater
number of passages that have been quoted in books of extracts, or a greater
number of ...

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Page 174 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...

Page 222 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks...

Page 351 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...

Page 36 - Would he were fatter: — But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...

Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.

Page 87 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Page 156 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...